By Ben Warren, MediaNews Group

The North Lake Processing Center in west Michigan has only been open a little more than a month, but it already houses more immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement than the rest of the state’s detention centers combined, according to figures reported by the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.

Republican lawmakers and GEO Group, the private company that owns and operates North Lake near Baldwin, tout the facility’s potential to create jobs in Lake County — one of Michigan’s poorest — but immigration rights advocates have raised concerns about GEO’s human rights record and approach to transparency.

Christopher Ferreira, the GEO Group’s director of corporate relations, defended the company’s work with ICE in a statement to The Detroit News, s

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